Can I just add, Debet, that when I learned "wherefore" meant "why," it made that speech SO much more understandable? Only knowledge I remember from studying that play (which I hated, ever so much. Hamlet's a rather different story, though neither of them are Macbeth or Lear in my mind.)
Two by two, hands of blue. Two by two, hands of blue.
River ,'Ariel'
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Gris - Oct 23, 2006 5:42:09 pm PDT #8471 of 10000
Hey. New board.
sj - Oct 23, 2006 5:42:35 pm PDT #8472 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Don't encourage me. I took two Shakespeare classes my first time around in college, and everytime I see an "inspirational" Shakespeare mug, or the like, I want to tell people, you know that was said by a fool or a villian or whatever the case is. I'm in a bad moood, I don't feel like doing school work, and Tara was right, the lack of good spelling on the internet is depressing.
Pix - Oct 23, 2006 5:42:42 pm PDT #8473 of 10000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
sj, yes, yes you should. /peer pressure
And "wherefore" means "why", not "where"
t sits next to Debet
Gris - Oct 23, 2006 5:44:09 pm PDT #8474 of 10000
Hey. New board.
Well, to be fair, just because it's said by a fool doesn't make it a line that's being mocked.
Polonius, on the other hand, well...
sj - Oct 23, 2006 5:45:38 pm PDT #8475 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Well, to be fair, just because it's said by a fool doesn't make it a line that's being mocked.
This is true, but those quotes often aren't meant to be the deep wisdom that people use them for.
DebetEsse - Oct 23, 2006 5:51:51 pm PDT #8476 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Shakespeare did often write wise fools.
Gris, you left out a bit. I'm pretty sure that between "perchance to dream" and "for in that sleep of death", there "Aye, there's the rub", which makes it much more interesting.
That and it's supposed to be a mixed metaphor. Taking up arms against a sea is that futile.
I never studied Hamlet, and, really, I'm kind of glad for it. My teachers in HS had a habit of wrecking things I'd otherwise like.
R&J are annoying, though. And Hamlet needs to not be played by anyone over, say, 28.
Zenkitty - Oct 23, 2006 6:06:20 pm PDT #8477 of 10000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
My high school English teacher didn't believe in teaching the classics. Not Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, none of 'em. We read Upton Sinclair. And a lot of Dickens. She liked Dickens.
SuziQ - Oct 23, 2006 6:06:42 pm PDT #8478 of 10000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Too much homework. Not enough brains. Oh, and I had forgotten a paper that is also due today. NOT COOL.
Cashmere - Oct 23, 2006 6:09:06 pm PDT #8479 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
One of our English teachers in my freshman high (I didn't have him for any classes) used to dress up as Shakespeare and stay in character on Shakespeare's birthday.
I got him to come to an Elizabethan dinner party I threw as a project in my Shakespeare class when I was a junior. I got an A.
Pix - Oct 23, 2006 6:13:53 pm PDT #8480 of 10000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
In May we have a Shakespeare day with actors and swordfights and the entire English department in garb! I'm already excited.